On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:44:43PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > > From: Paul Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:21:48 -0500 (EST) > > > I just upgraded from autoconf-2.13 to autoconf-2.52 and either I > > have done something incredibly stupid (an always present > > possibility) or the 2.52 version does its thing extremely slowly. > > It's the latter. > > > FYI - the SS5 workstation has an 85 MHz cpu. > > An 85 MHz MicroSPARC II? Wow. SPECint 92 is 65.3, which means it's > about the same as a 60 MHz original Pentium for your application. > That's -- what -- 20 times slower than the cheapest PC that I can now > buy at my local computer shop?
there were claims on this mailing list that 2.50 was 3 times faster than 2.13 (so you're saying that 2.52x is ~60 times slower than 2.50) > You need to run "autoconf" on a faster machine. Sorry. (At least > "configure" hasn't slowed down much. :-) can you quantify that? -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
